ExxonMobil to Increase Gasoline Supply to U.S. Gulf Coast

ExxonMobil's second
largest U.S. refinery, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will be
increasing the production of gasoline and other fuel products over the
next several days and will promptly ramp-up production rates further
as crude supply from the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) and other
sources increase above today's levels. This will help ease customer
demands in regions hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina.

The U.S. Department of Energy has approved ExxonMobil's request
for a loan of up to 6 million barrels of oil from the nation's
Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help ExxonMobil gain access to
additional crude supplies at Baton Rouge. Over the past several days
the company has coordinated with governments, industry and utilities
to restore power to industry pipelines and Mississippi River marine
transportation so that crude can be delivered to the refinery.
Increasing production at ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge refinery should have
significant positive impacts to customers.

The next step is to work with industry to restore pipeline
transportation to increase product supplies in areas affected by the
hurricane. This has been difficult due to the outage of the Colonial
and Plantation Pipeline systems. Plantation Pipeline is now reportedly
open at near full capacity.

Over the past several days, heightened price volatility and
uncertain gasoline supplies associated with this major natural
disaster have created an extremely difficult situation for
ExxonMobil's customers. Demand at the company's Exxon and Mobil
stations has nearly doubled. Wholesale spot market and NYMEX gasoline
prices have risen substantially in the U.S. and around the world.

ExxonMobil is making branded fuel available to its independent
retailers and distributors at wholesale prices below the spot market
and NYMEX gasoline prices. The vast majority of Exxon and Mobil
service stations are operated by individual dealers and distributors
who purchase their fuel products from ExxonMobil and set their own
retail prices.

The company encourages its independent dealers and distributors to
act as responsible neighbors in their communities in this difficult
situation.

ExxonMobil also urges motorists to continue to be prudent in their
purchases. For example, frequent "topping off" of tanks will only
create artificial shortages.